History
On the eve of 1826, the Frenchman Tranquille Yard (French Tranquille Yard, whose name the establishment bore) opened a restaurant in Shavan's house on Kuznetsky Most. The Moskovskie Vedomosti newspaper reported that a "restaurant with a lunch and dinner table, all sorts of grape wines and liqueurs, desserts, coffee and tea, at very reasonable prices" had opened.
For several years - from 1848 to 1851 - Yar worked in the Hermitage Garden, but not in the modern Hermitage Garden on Petrovka, but in the old one, on Bozhedomka.
In 1836, Yar opened in Petrovsky Park, in a wooden one-story building near Petersburg Highway (now Leningradsky Prospekt). In 1871, the Moscow merchant F. I. Aksyonov became the owner of the restaurant. Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote: “Yar kept Aksyonov, a fat, shaven man, very aptly nicknamed “Orange””, “... country restaurants, the best of them are Yar and Strelna”
The same restaurants "Yar" and "Strelna" become centers of gypsy singing. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. Ilya Sokolov's gypsy choir worked in Yar, famous gypsy singers sang here - Olimpiada Nikolaevna Fedorova (Pisha), and later - Varvara Vasilyevna Panina (Vasilyeva).
The restaurant building has been rebuilt several times. In July 1896, Yar was acquired by a former waiter, a native of the peasants of the Yaroslavl province, Alexei Akimovich Sudakov. In 1910, on his behalf, the architect Adolf Erichson built a new building in the Art Nouveau style, with large faceted domes, arched windows and monumental metal lamps on the facade. Inside, the Great and Small Halls, the imperial box and offices were arranged, one of which was named "Pushkin" in memory of the poet who wrote about "Yar" in Kuznetsk.
The legendary restaurant "YAR" continues to delight Moscow gourmets with dishes of Russian and European cuisine.
Restaurant website yar-restoran.ru